Apple's evidence in Samsung case might not match up

This isn't helping your case Apple. You thought they wouldn't notice.

Obviously photoshopped.

And a little bit of Photoshop shenanigans is not going to erase Samsung's CEO publicly stating that they made changes to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 after seeing the iPad 2

Nobady talks about the fact that what we are seeing in Samsung's tablet in the image above is the "Apps" section of the Honeycomb, not the natural homescreen, just as the Ipad is showing. They are comparing two different things, and usually users are in the main screens. If you compare the main screens of Ipad and Samsung tablet, they have absolutely nothing to do, specially because the Samsung tablet is naturally build to use it in landscape mode (I know, you can use it however you want, but a 10.1 screen tablet is usually used in ladscape). So I think that not only the size of the Samsung tablet is misleading, but also what Apple chose to put as background of the Samsung tablet. They are comparing apples with bananas. Of course, there might be other images that we don't know as people point out, but just wanted to make the point with this one image (if this happens once, for sure will happen in many images). And for the record, I am an apple guy...

Gruber's an idiot. I'm an Apple guy, and I can even point out that all the other images don't help Apple's case. This is a prime example of Fanboy-ism that doesn't help anyone think realistically. Do they look EXACTLY the same? Hell no. Case closed. If you say they look the same, prove to me how. They don't have the same aspect ratio, but who cares about that. How's about the fact that the cameras position is on the wide end on the Tab? Button? I don't see a Home button anywhere. This is the REALITY, Apple see's Samsung as a threat. And rightfully so. They make damn good products, so this would be great for competition. That's what this is about. Just like Google buying Motorola, it's about patents. So tell Gruber to take his iDildo out of his ass and be a man.

If you read the complaint, you'd see that the section comparing the above image is discussing the interface elements and presentation... not the screen sizes. The pages that are concerned with the physical layout of the tablet has them pictured side by side...

But, why bother fact checking...

Yawn...Another site that did not bother to do their own research. Why even have a tech news site if all you are going to do is regurgitate the lies of others?

Clueless lady: Oh look an iPad, here have my money! This is so cool- oops.

Are you kidding? The only reason there is a 'tablet market' is because of the iPad. Everyone is ripping off everyone else, it's just a matter of proving it. The iPhone's the same thing - the way the top smartphones look and work now are total rip-offs of the iPhone, and Tablets are mostly the same.

The patent system is just a big failure. Patents are granted on things that patents shouldn't be granted on, and Doctor'd image or not, Apple's litigious streak here is...regrettable. (but maybe it bought them enough time and iPad sales to offset the cost of the case...heh.)

It's really easy for the uninitiated (non geeks, lawyers and judges) to get hung up on the fact that the Tab's aspect ratio is different, and then fail to fully appreciate the similarities between the two devices. The fact that the tab has a different aspect ratio hardly matters when so many other aspects of the industrial and user experience design are so blatantly similar. Apple is trying to keep people from being distracted by something they've deemed unimportant in the case.

Perhaps Apple should have changed the iPad's screen ratio to that of the Tab. If so many people didn't know exactly what an iPad looks like, they probably would have.